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Geotimes
April 2006 |
This Month in History... April 18, 1906: The Great Earthquake Destroys San Francisco Those few individuals who were involved in the relatively new science of seismology quickly journeyed to San Francisco that long ago April to see for themselves the effects of the disaster, to record their observations in scientific terms, and to hypothesize on its causes.   |
Smithsonian
May 2006
Robert F. Howe |
Destination America: Angel Island A rugged outcropping in the San Francisco Bay remains a refuge hidden in plain sight. |
Real Travel Adventures
February 2007
Ron Kapon |
I Left My Heart Outside San Francisco San Mateo County, just west of San Francisco Bay, has just as many markets, restaurants, and shopping areas as the Bay. |
AskMen.com
Keith Rockmael |
Savoring San Francisco Underneath its foggy cover, San Francisco hosts plenty of hotspots that will keep you entertained. From the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farmer's Market, find out how to best spend three days in Frisco. |
American History
April 2006
Eric Niderost |
The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire San Francisco has a history of surviving disasters -- but none bigger than the 1906 earthquake that shook the city to its core and ignited a howling blaze that threatened its total destruction. |
National Real Estate Investor
October 1, 2002
Steve Ginsberg |
From Boom to Bust Since the 1850s gold rush, San Francisco's development has been a series of booms and busts. What's new about the latest bust is the culprit. |
Real Travel Adventures
July 2005
Rona Gilbert |
Fireworks, Sailboats and the San Francisco Bay The Inn Above Tide is a sophisticated, yet comfortable, 29-room boutique inn located in the heart of Sausalito. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
Re-engineering the Bay Bridge: Built Quake Tough Engineers knew that returning the bridge to its pre-earthquake state wouldn't be enough. They needed to come up with a solution that could withstand some of the worst that California's fault zones are capable of dishing out. |
BusinessWeek
September 19, 2005
Grover & Palmeri |
The Day California Cracks Budget crises have left the state ill prepared for a big quake. The good news is, with the feds scaling back, communities are finding ways to fend for themselves. |
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2005
Nicholas Yulico |
Betting on a Rebound A surge in San Francisco leasing activity has propelled investors to pay record prices for trophy buildings in recent months. Skeptics wonder whether buyers are wise to bet on a recovery that may still be a ways off. |
CEO Traveler
Emily Fancher |
San Franciso San Francisco is a sculpture of tiered hills wrapped by a commanding bay. It is fog, a famous red-gold bridge--- Golden Gate---and a city of surprises and secrets... |
Inc.
September 1, 2002
Mike Hofman |
From Calamity to Colossus Bank of America can trace its success back to the immigrant-owned businesses that it saw through the disastrous 1906 San Francisco earthquake. |
Outside
May 2008
Andy Isaacson |
Walk Hard Leave San Francisco behind on a three-day, 30-mile trek that starts just beyond the Golden Gate Bridge |
National Real Estate Investor
July 1, 2006
Morris Newman |
San Francisco's Bipolar Office Market Riding a High Investors in the seemingly bipolar San Francisco office market appear ready to bounce back. After three years of slow recovery, downtown San Francisco is ready to relegate the tech fiasco to the past. |
Fast Company
June 1, 2007
Christopher Percy Collier |
Fun Runs Alone in a strange city? Combine the benefits of a heart-healthy trip to the fitness center with the intellectual jolt of the guided tour -- minus the ESPN2 ticker or the crowd schlep. The customized running tour is coming to a city you're going to. |
Outside
November 2004 |
Urban Adventures A new look at the way one plays outdoors in America's great cities: Cut Loose... Plug into the Local Media... Reconsider the Classics... etc. |
PC Magazine
April 19, 2006 |
Connected Traveler: San Francisco In 2004, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced plans to blanket the entire city with free Wi-Fi Internet access. Here are other tech attractions, Wi-Fi hot spots, and connected hotels in this city. |
Lucire
January 24, 2011 |
The reinvention of San Francisco The dot-com culture may have gone, but the City now has a sophisticated air, especially when it comes to food and its bar culture |
Smithsonian
July 2007
Armistead Maupin |
"Mad, Stark Mad" Thirty-five years after "defecting" to the Barbary Coast, the bestselling novelist still loves his city by the bay -- San Francisco. |
Popular Mechanics
July 30, 2008
Erik Sofge |
L.A. Quake Was Minor, but Is America Ready for the Big One? The quake preparedness of Los Angeles was put to the test yesterday, but only barely. |
| CEO Traveler |
Holiday Time in a Favorite City On the Saturday before Christmas, the busiest shopping day of the year, San Francisco's retail district, anchored by Union Square, was overrun with customers |
Geotimes
December 2003
Naomi Lubick |
San Simeon Earthquake Seismologists have tentatively pegged the source of December 22's 6.5-magnitude earthquake that destroyed the landmark building in the town of Paso Robles and killed at least two people. |
Geotimes
October 2005 |
Geomedia Book Reviews: Never Piss Into the Wind by Jules R. DuBar... A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester... |
Popular Mechanics
May 13, 2008
Erik Sofge |
3 Frontiers in Earthquake Tech to Aid China--and Help the U.S. Can a network of GPS sensors store enough data online to scout the Bay Area's looming quake? And could the rig work in the Chinese countryside? |
Salon.com
July 14, 2000
Janelle Brown |
A dot-com call to art Tech companies are driving artists out of San Francisco, but tech millionaires could save them. |
BusinessWeek
October 10, 2005
Spencer E. Ante |
An Inferno Waiting To Happen A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 is a solid account, but less successful than previous works by Simon Winchester. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Natural Hazards News Stories of 2006 Looking Into Landslides... Getting Ready for the Rumble... Levee Concerns Abound... Spreading Wildfire... etc. |
Fast Company
April 2013 |
After Tolls, Who Gets Stuck With the Bill? Nationwide, toll plazas are being replaced by FasTrak-style services or a camera that notes your license plate and mails you a bill. Case study: San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. |
Salon.com
April 27, 2001
King Kaufman |
$8.25 an hour in a million-dollar world It was hard for lower-end workers to make ends meet in the Bay Area of the dot-com boom. And it's still hard in the bust... |
Geotimes
June 2004
Callan Bentley |
Geology and history intersect in Charleston That the Civil War began here is a venerable fact of the American saga, but it may come as a surprise to learn that some of the richest fossil deposits in the country are located near Charleston, and that a 7.6-magnitude earthquake occurred here in 1886, far from any tectonic boundary. |
Scientific American
January 2006
David Appell |
Easing Jitters When Buildings Rumble After natural disasters, an anxious public wants to see that someone understands the catastrophe. For California quakes, seismologist Lucy Jones does the job. |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2008 |
Engineers to Quake-Proof Cal Stadium on Free-Floating Blocks Seismic engineers apparently have solved one of the world's great retrofit puzzles: how to keep UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium from crumbling into a pile of concrete rubble during a major earthquake. |
BusinessWeek
June 10, 2010
Dan Levy |
Home Bidding Wars Are Back in San Francisco The recovering tech industry and lack of supply boosts prices. |
Outside
January 2009
Lynn Downey |
Vintage Jeans Gallery A collection of rare and expensive pants. |
Geotimes
October 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Talc May Reduce Friction at Creeping Fault A three-kilometer-deep borehole drilled by SAFOD in 2005 crossed the central "creeping" part of the San Andreas Fault, producing rock cuttings containing both serpentinite and talc. |
Insurance & Technology
April 5, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Recent Natural Catastrophes Should Alert U.S. Insurers to Dangers Experience with seismic events mitigated the human and property toll of the February Chile earthquake -- lessons that should inform insurers' planning in parts of the U.S. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Megan Sever |
Devastation in the Indian Ocean A magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Sunday morning, followed by dozens of powerful aftershocks and large tsunamis that reached as far as the east coast of Africa, some 4,800 kilometers away. |
Salon.com
August 29, 2000
Damien Cave |
Kissing up to the community Once hailed as San Francisco saviors, dot-coms now have to make nice with peeved neighbors. |
Geotimes
June 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Super-Size Quake California fell into the sea during a television miniseries aired by NBC. In addition to the other faulty geologic premises of the melodrama, one elemental error is the size of the earthquake that spawned the miniseries' disasters. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Megan Sever |
Quake strikes Central California The U.S. Geological Survey received more than 9,000 reports from people who felt the quake, from Sacramento to Los Angeles. |
Popular Mechanics
October 29, 2009
Jeff Wise |
Engineers Cite Vibrations, Wind in Bay Bridge Failure Engineers working on San Francisco's ill-starred Bay Bridge have fingered a culprit in the repair job that went awry Tuesday evening |
Science News
August 19, 2006 |
Science Safari: Microscope Imaging The website of the Exploratorium in San Francisco provides images of a wide range of microscopic critters. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Megan Sever |
Giant earthquake hits Japan A magnitude-8.1 earthquake struck off the southeastern coast of Hokkaido, Japan, before dawn on Friday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Japanese quake is the strongest to hit anywhere in the world this year. |
Geotimes
March 2004
Mark Zoback |
Earthquake Prediction and the Developing World The toll from the Iranian earthquake in December -- at least 30,000 dead and an estimated 40,000 homeless in just a few seconds -- is difficult to comprehend. Unfortunately, we can predict with reasonable certainty that sometime in the next few years, in a country with buildings unprepared to withstand disaster, a catastrophic quake will happen again |
Geotimes
June 2004
Megan Sever |
Midwest Shaking An earthquake rattled northwestern Illinois and points across the Midwest this morning Monday, June 28 at about 1:10 a.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. |
Military History
Jul/Aug 2006
Michael D. Hull |
Peter Francisco: American Revolutionary War Hero In 1776, the young 'giant' Peter Francisco was the most renowned common soldier in the Continental Army -- and possibly in the entire history of the U.S. Army. |
Geotimes
June 2005
Megan Sever |
Quake Shakes Chile A magnitude-7.8 temblor rocked northern Chile and was felt throughout parts of Peru and Bolivia, including in the capital city of La Paz, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The quake was centered in the remote and mostly unpopulated northern Andes region of Tarapaca. |
Salon.com
October 26, 2001
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Down and out in San Francisco The collapse of the travel industry is hammering the Bay Area's working class. But is a reformed welfare system still able to come to the rescue? |
National Real Estate Investor
February 7, 2003 |
Forest City, Westfield to develop San Francisco retail venue Forest City Enterprises, the developer of 835 Market Street in downtown San Francisco, and Westfield America, the owner of the San Francisco Centre, announced an agreement to integrate, develop and market the two sites, creating one of the nation's largest urban retail destinations. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 17, 2015
Michael Blanding |
HBS Cases:The Battle for San Francisco In San Francisco, tech companies are hoping to make the world a better place -- but the fabric of the city is changing in the process. Technology workers may be threatening the very culture that they came to celebrate. |
